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Study Details: Full-time: 1 year, Part-time: 2 years
This course explores all aspects of the publishing industry, including editorial and content development, design and production, sales and marketing, and business success and entrepreneurship. Throughout, you will learn how to respond to the exciting new opportunities facing the industry today and in the future.
The total value of the British book publishing industry is over £7 billion, the largest in the world in terms of its output per head of population. The growth of ebooks and audiobooks, the ongoing impact of social media on reading habits, and the impact of AI, are all bringing new challenges and opportunities to the industry.
The Derby MA Publishing programme is up-to-date, well balanced and exciting, with all modules including a blend of theory and practice. This tightly focused and complete MA covers industry sectors from trade fiction and non-fiction to children's books and academic, educational and professional publishing.
The entry requirement to this programme is a good honours degree (1st or 2:1) in any subject, or its international equivalent. Applications may be considered if you have a 2:2 honours degree and can demonstrate significant publishing or related industry experience or aptitude. Examples might include a period of work at an appropriate level within publishing or a related industry, or a portfolio of work or achievements in a related discipline such as for example, English, Business, Law, Graphic Design, etc.
The MA Publishing will equip you with a broad range of skills, a critical awareness of the whole industry, a high degree of flexibility and an enterprising mindset. It will prepare you for careers with major publishing houses or the growing number of small publishers, including the thousands of ‘micro-publishers’, which exist within the UK. You could also consider becoming self-employed or setting up your own publishing company.
There are opportunities, too, to work in publishing roles within charitable organisations, government bodies and cultural organisations such as galleries and museums.
Much of the knowledge and many of the skills you will attain on this MA are highly transferable. The course is a perfect springboard for a wide range of professional careers such as magazine publishing, librarianship, bookselling, PR, communications, or illustration and web design.
Core Modules:
The Publishing Profession
Editorial and Editing
Print and Digital Production
Marketing and Sales in Modern Publishing
Optional Modules:
Legal Frameworks for Publishers
Skills for Modern Publishing
Academic, Educational and Professional Publishing
Magazine Publishing
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